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Topic: Buffer Zones vs SCOTUS (Read 817 times)

Fourteen years ago, the court upheld Colorado's 8-foot "floating" buffer zones around individuals to protect patients and staff entering and exiting these clinics. Since then, buffer zones have prevented demonstrators from closely approaching patients and staff without permission.But the issue is back before a different and more conservative Supreme Court.

Today "The Supremes" heard arguments on the constitutional right to have/not have buffer zones at abortion clinics. Nina Totenberg article worth a listen.

If that is free speech, then holding up a compressed air boat horn to their ear and holding down the button is also would be free speech, no?

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An Omnipowerful God needed to sacrifice himself to himself (but only for a long weekend) in order to avert his own wrath against his own creations who he made in a manner knowing that they weren't going to live up to his standards.

If that is free speech, then holding up a compressed air boat horn to their ear and holding down the button is also would be free speech, no?

well, see, they got this really nice old lady who is very friendly and just wants to have a nice quiet conversation with people to convince them her view is right to file the suit. So while the reality is this appeal is for the whackos and thugs, the seemingly reasonable senior citizen is the public face of it.

well, see, they got this really nice old lady who is very friendly and just wants to have a nice quiet conversation with people to convince them her view is right to file the suit. So while the reality is this appeal is for the whackos and thugs, the seemingly reasonable senior citizen is the public face of it.

What? Religious people using disingenuous tactics to try to make their viewpoint law?!!!

I'm shocked, shocked that there is gambling in this establishment.

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An Omnipowerful God needed to sacrifice himself to himself (but only for a long weekend) in order to avert his own wrath against his own creations who he made in a manner knowing that they weren't going to live up to his standards.

The thing is, for all that they want to present themselves as just representing kind old ladies who just want to talk, the fact of the matter is that it's incredibly easy for the other side to pull out one of hundreds of examples of people who are not kind old ladies who just want to talk - and indeed, where the lack of a buffer zone would effectively create an atmosphere of pure intimidation, which freedom of speech doesn't give you the right to do.

And having watched Occupy demonstrators get pepper-sprayed, and rousted with considerable force from the public parks, and having been herded into "free-speech zones" at political conventions, I am disinclined to care very much about a relatively minor inconvenience imposed generally on a debate in which one side literally has a body count behind it.

A sidewalk is a public easement for anyone to use when they walk down the street. Anyone has a legal right to use a sidewalk.

Is it legal for a homeowner to stand in his front yard, very close to the sidewalk, and yell at people as they walk by telling them that they are committing a sin by using that sidewalk? Is that type of intimidation permitted? Does his First Amendment right trump the rights of others to use the sidewalk? Might potential users of the sidewalk feel threatened and avoid exercising their rights to pass over that portion of sidewalk? Would the homeowner be arrested for creating a public disturbance? A noise violation? Would he be sent for a pysch evaluation for doing this every day?

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John 14:2 :: In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

These people, and many other who protest about other things[1] always strike me as long on rhetoric and principal and short on practicality.

Let’s say that they are held individually responsible for their actions at a very high level. This is not unfair because that is the standard to which the mother will be held.

Let us take one ardent protester and say to them “OK. You do not wish this woman to have an abortion. The cost of the child that she then produces will fall in its entirety to you personally and no one else. You personally will be responsible for all and any expenses, food, clothes, baby-sitting, all and every medical cost regardless of the state in which the child is born, education, welfare throughout life and pension and burial. And all this will be taken, by taxation, from you personally. If you have no taxable income, then your assets to the value will be seized by the state and used for that purpose. When your assets run out, you will be declared bankrupt. To start the process, we will take from you an amount of cash to represent any lost earnings by the mother and any cost to the state of the mother’s giving birth. Now, how do you feel about that woman having an abortion? I have a water-tight contract for you to sign.”

These people are the same people who do not give their money away and follow Christ as prescribed. They are mindless arseh*les who think that just because they are like that, then everyone else should be. Bigotry written large.

A sidewalk is a public easement for anyone to use when they walk down the street. Anyone has a legal right to use a sidewalk.

Is it legal for a homeowner to stand in his front yard, very close to the sidewalk, and yell at people as they walk by telling them that they are committing a sin by using that sidewalk? Is that type of intimidation permitted? Does his First Amendment right trump the rights of others to use the sidewalk? Might potential users of the sidewalk feel threatened and avoid exercising their rights to pass over that portion of sidewalk? Would the homeowner be arrested for creating a public disturbance? A noise violation? Would he be sent for a pysch evaluation for doing this every day?

Reminds me when I lived in Wheaton. A man had attack dogs that would throw themselves at the fence that was inches from the sidewalk, and said dogs would bark and growl at anyone using the sidewalk. The grass in his yard was dead the two feet in front of the fence. One day I had off, I proceeded to walk up and down in front of his house with a YoYo. The dogs actually got hoarse from barking so much and exhausted from throwing themselves at the fence to get to me, and he came out to yell at me a few times. I don't know why; after all I was silently playing with a Yo-Yo on a public sidewalk.

I really don't think he got the point of my actions. I really was hoping he'd call the cops.

An Omnipowerful God needed to sacrifice himself to himself (but only for a long weekend) in order to avert his own wrath against his own creations who he made in a manner knowing that they weren't going to live up to his standards.